host were rushing at me en masse.
The chairman sprang to his feet and waved a wand. "Silence and order!"
he commanded.
Thousands of brandishing weapons were brought to a stand, and quietness
reigned in a moment.
"Why say you 'ten thousand'? What power lives in those words?" asked
the chairman with a show of boldness, but in secret quaking. "Power
unlimited, even over death, hell, and the grave. My flesh is not food
for such as these."
"Who can you be to talk thus boldly to your superiors?"
"I am one who is sealed by the blood of Jesus, and have no superiors
outside the gates of Heaven."
"Why came you here?" he impatiently and furiously demanded. "Tell me
while yet you have opportunity to speak."
Then, fully confiding in my unseen Guard, I stood erect and said with
boldness of speech: "I have come to learn the secrets of this
underground legislation which is sending its blighting curse throughout
the world. Having witnessed the wide extent of these secret operations,
I will now return to the brotherhood of man and sound the alarm of a
coming reformation. O, beware ye multitudes that now rise against me!
I am not alone, nor forsaken. By faith I see armies of the living God.
I declare, at this moment, that earth will not forever receive her
laws from such a depth. The hour must come when these million wires
will be broken beyond repair, and all you fiends go groveling under
penal chains in darkness eternal."
[Illustration: The armies of righteousness will some day triumph over
the black hordes of civil iniquity.]
No more could I speak, for the air was thickening all around me with
a rush of wild demons whose threatening weapons thirsted for my blood.
I stood motionless, glorying in the power of the Unseen, for I saw,
shining far above me, a beautiful star of hope with peace and purity
in its rays.
In the same instant I again shouted, "_Ho, ye ten thousand!_" Oh, what
a transformation took place! Regiment upon regiment of Heaven's military
hosts, converging as from infinite depth of space, burst into sudden
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